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Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Winston Churchill
Failure
Ignorance
Socialism
Envy
Virtue
Philosophy
Misery
Sharing
Equal
Gospel
Inherent
Creed
I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.
Anne Frank
Beauty
Think
Remains
Misery
Still
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
Saint Augustine
Love
Eyes
Men
Help Others
Needy
Sympathy
Others
Ears
Sighs
Hasten
See
Misery
Feet
Like
Look
Looks
Sorrows
Does
Hear
Hands
Want
Poor
Help
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
Woody Allen
Life
Loneliness
Suffering
Too
Misery
Soon
Over
Much
Full
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
Dante Alighieri
Happiness
Misery
Sorrow
Greater
Times
Than
Recall
Sad Relatable
I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.
Martha Washington
Happiness
Myself
Happy
Whatever
Situation
Disposition
Our
Circumstance
Find
Determined
Misery
Part
Cheerful
Learned
Greater
Am
May
Unhappiness
The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
Frederick Douglass
Happiness
Man
Black
White
Purchased
Misery
Cannot
Every man should make his son or daughter learn some useful trade or profession, so that in these days of changing fortunes of being rich today and poor tomorrow they may have something tangible to fall back upon. This provision might save many persons from misery, who by some unexpected turn of fortune have lost all their means.
P. T. Barnum
Today
Man
Son
Tomorrow
Daughter
Fall
Lost
Rich
Being Rich
Every
Changing
Back
Some
Something
Misery
Days
Make
Learn
Trade
Tangible
His
Provision
Unexpected
May
Being
Poor
Might
Turn
Persons
Should
Means
Useful
Fortune
Fortunes
Who
Profession
Many
Every Man
Save
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
Eleanor Roosevelt
Will
Our
Rather
Prevent
Tender
Misery
Than
Human
Avenge
Act
Grow
Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action, which produces further confusion, further misery.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love
Relationship
Love Is
Confusion
Mercy
Affection
Action
Further
Factor
Misery
Tenderness
Generosity
Mass
Missing
Because
Escape
Lack
Which
Warmth
Produces
Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
Leon Trotsky
Life
Great
You
Frustration
Matter
Before
Live
Unless
Weakness
Great Idea
Easy
Kinds
Above
Through
Misery
Idea
Without
Falling
Personal
Cannot
Which
Cynicism
Raises
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Happiness
Friendship
Grief
Joy
Our
Misery
Dividing
Improves
Doubling
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
Charles Darwin
Great
Nature
Our
Laws
Misery
Sin
Institutions
Caused
Poor
Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.
C. S. Lewis
Day
You
Grief
Speak
Reflection
Live
Living
Every
Thinking
Shadow
About
Only
Fact
Misery
Part
Merely
Endless
Each
Each Day
Keep
Suffer
Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Happiness
Life
Decision
Will
Carefully
Percent
Misery
Come
Mate
Your
Choose
An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it's beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth... Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.
Pope Francis
Beautiful
Truth
You
Reality
Example
Hiding
Inside
Vanity
Gives
Misery
Self-Absorbed
Look
Discover
Huge
Front
Often
Behind
Them
Use
Whoever
Illustrate
Peacock
He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!
Anne Frank
Faith
Courage
Will
Misery
Never
He
Perish
Who
We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.
Charlie Chaplin
Happiness
Live
Other
Misery
Like
Another
Human
Want
Human Beings
To Live By
Help
Beings
Each
I want to be a force for real good. In other words. I know that there are bad forces, forces that bring suffering to others and misery to the world, but I want to be the opposite force. I want to be the force which is truly for good.
John Coltrane
Good
Suffering
Words
World
Other
Others
Bad
Misery
Know
Force
Forces
Real
Opposite
Truly
Want
In Other Words
Which
Bring
Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
Spike Milligan
Happiness
Buy
You
Money
Pleasant
More
Misery
Does
Form
Bring
I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.
Anne Frank
Death
Hope
Peace
Confusion
Will
Build
Think
Hopes
Misery
Simply
Return
Tranquillity
Again
Foundation
The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.
Bertolt Brecht
Alone
Law
Made
Naked
Exploitation
Those
One Thing
Obeying
Misery
Understand
Who
Thing
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us in our minds wherever we go.
Martha Washington
Happiness
Other
Our
Minds
Circumstances
Carry
Seeds
About
Misery
Part
Greater
Go
Depends
Wherever
Us
Men and women who decide to flirt with adultery just once can become enmeshed in misery and unhappiness for themselves and their precious families.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
Women
Men
Men And Women
Adultery
Become
Once
Misery
Families
Precious
Just
Decide
Unhappiness
Themselves
Who
Flirt
I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.
Albert Schweitzer
Thought
Some
Misery
Firmly
Always
End
Little
Us
Held
Each
Each One
Portion
Bring
Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.
Euripides
Wind
Somewhere
Must
Misery
Always
Blows
Human
Stop
Storm
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